U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin on Wednesday sentenced Dennis Hastert to 15 months in prison for a banking crime that concealed what the judge called the former House speaker’s “dark past” as a “serial child molester.”
If there were any thought that Durkin would accept the defense’s request that the ill Hastert avoid jail, it faded when the judge asked a pointed question of Hastert, who publicly apologized for having “mistreated” high school wrestling students he coached in the 1960s and 1970s.
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